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It still boggles me that Marlon Brando was originally supposed to play the cannibal.
My favourite bit is when they send you a code that "has to be used in the next 30 minutes" three hours after you requested it.
According to tradition, the "Tutti-men" would walk through Hungerford collecting rent from commoners on Hock Monday, while on Hock Tuesday both Tutti men and Tutti women would collect kisses in exchange for an orange.
The charity says that at the head of the Court is the Constable, "who takes his or her seat in a carved ebony chair which is probably of Portuguese origin, and possibly dating from the Elizabethan period". If a called commoner is absent, the Bellman and Assistant Bailiff "slams down a penny and shouts 'Here Sir!"
In the evening, the Three Swans Hotel on the High St will take centre stage in the celebrations as the last port of call for the Tutti men, women and the orange man. The charity says the hotel will serve "a traditional and tasty treat" of anchovies on toast.
Incredible folk horror energy. 🌞🌳🍊
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RIP. His 40K novels were the purest expression of the baroque lunacy of the setting, and his original sci-fi work an inspiration.
Just finished (re) watching ITV's A Spy Among Friends - the only espionage drama I've seen that stands alongside the one-two punch of the Alec Guinness Tinker, Tailor and Smiley's People. youtu.be/Sup7AGbwwMc?...
Rome, Open City?
Once there were two barbers on the same street. One decided to undercut the other on price, advertising $5 HAIRCUTS! and the other one stuck up a sign saying WE FIX $5 HAIRCUTS.
If you want to get in at the ground floor of a whole new business sector, set up a company that fixes AI messes.
Behold. #LastFourWatched
The cover of Thin Places in Hard Concrete with a floating brutalist staircase and a pale blue to purple gradient.
A quote from Rose Ruane, author of Birding: “Ray’s books are masterpieces of uncanny atmosphere, claustrophobic, tautly plotted, exquisitely evocative prose, written with an artist’s eye for detail and architecture, an M.R. James or Robert Aickman of crumbling concrete and civic buildings. His incredible eerie tales of the urban weird will haunt you in the most welcome way.”
My new collection ‘Thin Places in Hard Concrete‘ is out on 30 April as an eBook and paperback with 10 brand new weird stories.
Pre-order the eBook here 👉 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4
A poster in purple with a halftone image of a carving of a horse rearing up.
Poster #5: The Horseman.
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There'll also be a paperback available to order from 30 April.
Pot of Patum Peperium
Is Gentleman's Relish to cease production?
Not many know that the genesis of the English ghost story nestles in its pungent waft and salty savour
It was regularly served at the Cambridge Chitchat Club in 1893
MR James read aloud Lost Hearts - as the dark anchovy triangles vanished into mouths
The "what year is this?" meme.
New albums by the Rolling Stones and (one of) The Beatles, NASA launching Moon rockets, and two episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan out.
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@secondmentions.bsky.social "pungent anchovy spread"
Would be terrible if someone were to review-bomb his shitty pub. Just terrible.
Yet be well assur’d
You put sharp weapons in a madman’s hands.
No this can't be because those reviews where you were showing the Star Wars prequels to your kids were, like, a year or two ago. Right?
Drone light shows are cooler, though.
Warhammer Quest Barbarian
Warhammer Quest Elf
Working my way through painting the old Warhammer Quest '95 miniatures...
It has come to my attention that not all of you are aware that this exists. So, here it is. It exists. Dozens of channels of randomized music videos and bumpers. Choose your era and return to your childhood. Bookmark it for when you need to escape back.
wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html
Fabergé Easter egg from Octopussy.
Octopussy poster.
Octopussy is an Easter movie.
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
Or one of the many, many Skarsgårds.
It's going to be Pattinson isn't it?
Watching The Nightmare Begins again and pondering just when the Doctor invented that magnetic chair for restraining prisoners. My guess is he secretly built it shortly after Ian and Barbara came aboard the TARDIS, in case they turned on him.
Yay!
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A modern Mini Countryman SUV next to an original Mini, dwarfing it.
It's "mini" in the same sense this is.
